ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2018
Frailty and diabetes among Mexican American older adults.
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- Effects of Exercise and Diet on Body Composition and Physical Function in Older Hispanics with Type 2 Diabetes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Falls, hospitalizations, and poor self-rated health in older people with diabetes and frailty: a secondary analysis of SABE-Colombia.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Practical Considerations in the Management of Frail Older People with Diabetes.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Effect of Frailty on Body Composition and Its Impact on the Use of SGLT-2 Inhibitors and GLP-1RA in Older Persons with Diabetes.Metabolites · 2025Review
- Changes in Frailty and Cardiometabolic Disease: Evidence From a Longitudinal Cohort Study and Genetic Analysis.JACC. Advances · 2025Article
- The Use of SGLT-2 Inhibitors and GLP-1RA in Frail Older People with Diabetes: A Personalised Approach Is Required.Metabolites · 2025Review
- Early Origins of Frailty: Do Later-Life Social Relationships Alter Trajectories of Decline?Journal of aging and health · 2024Article
- Metabolic Impact of Frailty Changes Diabetes Trajectory.Metabolites · 2023Review
- Predictors associated with prefrailty in older Taiwanese individuals with type 2 diabetes.Medicine · 2022Article
- Hypoglycaemic therapy in frail older people with type 2 diabetes mellitus-a choice determined by metabolic phenotype.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Review
- Body mass index and physical frailty among older Mexican Americans: Findings from an 18-year follow up.PloS one · 2022Article
- Racial and ethnic disparities in lower extremity amputation: Assessing the role of frailty in older adults.Surgery · 2020Article
- Inflammation markers are associated with frailty in elderly patients with coronary heart disease.Aging · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeProgressive physical frailty in older adults is associated with increased risk of falls, disability, institutionalization, and mortality. Although associations between diabetes and frailty have been observed, the impact of diabetes on frailty in older Hispanics is largely unexplored. We examine the association of diabetes on the odds of frailty among older Mexican Americans.
methodsUsing data from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly from 1995 until 2012, frailty was assessed by slow gait, weak hand grip strength, exhaustion, and unexplained weight loss (n = 1327).
resultsLogistic regression showed a large magnitude of effect of diabetes on the odds of frailty (odds ratio 1.47, 95% confidence interval 1.14-1.90). Other contributors to frailty included arthritis, heart attack, and hip fracture. Positive and negative effects had significant and opposing associations. Ordinal logit models assessed the odds of frail compared to nonfrail and prefrail. In these models, diabetes was associated with a 32% increase in the odds of a higher level of frailty.
conclusionsDiabetes is a significant contributor to increased frailty in older Mexican Americans. Interventions to reduce frailty rates should focus on mitigating the effects of diabetes and shifting away from negative and toward positive effect.
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